I personally love learning new things. What better place to do that than a museum? Baruch College has a great location of being in New York City. There are so many museums, such as Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Museum, and much more, all throughout the city. This Wednesday, I made the most of free student admission when I hopped on the Uptown 6 train and took a trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art after class with two friends.

Upon entering the museum, I took a pause to see how vast the museum was in this cramped city of ours. It was breathtaking. When I finally entered, I was captivated by the layout of the lobby; each direction led to different regions of the world. Our first destination: Ancient Egypt. Nothing really caught my eye, until I saw the hieroglyphics. I was fascinated by their invention of an alphabet that was like none other. The hieroglyphic alphabet used images to communicate. This would make it easier for future civilizations to understand what Ancient Egyptian civilization was like.

The next thing to catch my eye was the Baroque painting done by Cristóbal de Villalpando. It was shocking. I learned about Baroque style in AP European History class in my senior year of high school. Actually seeing these paintings proved how incredible art can be and showed me that you can not really learn something in depth unless you actually witness it.

All in all, this experience taught me that there are finer things in life than trying to get good grades in the classroom. It also taught me that school is not the only place to learn. Going to this museum helped me broaden my perspective on the cultures that have lived upon this earth. In Baruch, diversity plays a main role in our successes. Everywhere around us, we see people of different cultures and become aware of the diversity in the world we live in.